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New Coins and Die

This is an improvement on a trick that is as old as our grandfathers, and explained in the first books of magic. No doubt our readers are well acquainted with the hollow stacks of coins in which a small die or cork ball is concealed.

The trick from time immemorial has been worked with either the English penny or American two-cent piece. Now the use of a two-cent piece is not advisable, for it is not an easy matter to borrow them from an assembly, and for a conjurer to take them from his pocket himself is bad taste and also suspicious. It is best to get a stack of ten half-dollars, and the only real coin is the top one; the rest are the manufactured coins, for sale at a reasonable price by the magical dealers. Now over this set of coins make a shell to represent a like number of coins, the top being a real coin turned down thin and the